We recently learnt the term "skill regression" from an informative, compassionate short by an AuDHD content creator (Dr Kojo Sarfo).

It is simultaneously:

• relieving to know there's a term for what we're experiencing;
  

and

• incredibly sad to know that so very many others have experienced, are experiencing, and/or will experience this 😔

#SkillRegression #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #NeurodivergentBurnout #neurospicy #spoonie

Edit: Removed a duplicate this. Unrelated side note: there is a song by Late Night Alumni called The This This.

When talking about #Autism and #UnMasking, the thing that has never sit well with me - and now literally makes me angry af - is #SkillRegression.

#Capitalism is so pervasive that everything that doesn't align with it and its "values" is seen as a regression - subsequently, progress is everything that keeps you under its power. When we unmask, we're not regressing: we're learning how we really work and since how #NeuroDivergency is inherently opposed to capitalism, we are automatically self-shaming into thinking we're losing something we will never regain anymore.

#UnMasking is #Resistance

Ich sag‘s ganz ehrlich: seit ich lerne, dass ich Teil des #AutismusSpektrum bin, erlebe ich im Job & allgemein im Alltag eine konstante #skillregression.

Ohne die Verwendung von #KI wäre ich aufgeschmissen, da ich es derzeit nicht mehr schaffe, mich richtig zu strukturieren, zu organisieren & ich merke auch, dass mir Kommunikation zunehmend schwerer fällt.

Ich werde zunehmend „behinderter“ & merke jetzt erst, wie viel Kraft & Kompensation mich mein Alltag kostet.

#AuDHS

I found this incredibly helpful in terms of self-understanding and -compassion

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gjO1rVZkDt8

#ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptanceMonth #neuroplasticity #SelfCompassion #SkillRegression